[4], 96 [i.e. 98] p., XXI [i.e. 22] leaves of plates : 35 cm. (fol.)

A publication based on the famous Würzburg Lügensteine hoax

Originally published with title: Lithographiae Wirceburgensis ducentis lapidum figuratorum, a potiori insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus exornatae. (Wirceburgi : P.W. Fuggart, 1726)

"The 2nd ed. of the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis consisted of original sheets with a new title page. The sheets undoubtedly came from copies of the original ed. recalled from booksellers and the press by Beringer but not destroyed. The reissue of the work as a literary curiosity is often attributed to one of Beringer's sons."--DSB, v. 2, p. 16

Numbers 79-80 are each repeated once in the pagination sequence, without repetition of text (leaf X1)

The unnumbered plate, apparently intended as a frontispiece, is signed: Puschner sc

Engraved device on t.p., with motto "Pretiosior illis" and monogram [GE?]

Head- and tail-pieces; initials

Signatures: pi2 A-2A² 2B² (-2B2)

Leaf pi2 is blank

Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-17)

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